New Author Suggestions?
By tracie1758
@tracie1758 (507)
United States
January 26, 2009 11:53am CST
I am just about tapped on new authors to start reading. Does anyone have any suggestions? I like the murder/mystery genre. James Patterson is a huge must in my house along with marry higgins clark. Can anyone else give me some suggestions on authors along the same lines as them that I can get into?
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@egdcltd (12059)
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26 Jan 09
Have you read any Kathy Reichs? Her Temperance Brennan series, which is set in Quebec and North Carolina, is about a forensic anthropologist helping to solve murders. I think the series tends to be pretty accurate as the author is qualified as that herself, and works/has worked in both places.

@tracie1758 (507)
• United States
26 Jan 09
Are you talking about the show Bones? I'm a huge fan of that show and did not realize that they came from books! I will definitely be picking up something by that Reichs on my next trip to the library!
thanks so much for the response!!

@kel1483 (986)
• United States
26 Jan 09
I realy like James Patterson. Here are some authors you might like if you like him:
Have you ever read any of Catherine Coulter's FBI Series? I really enjoy them. She also has bunch of historical romance novels (which I have never read, I'm not into that kind of thing...), so make sure if you check her out you don't end up with one of those haha. The first four books in the FBI series are titled: The Cove, The Maze, The Target and The Edge. That's the order they go in. I haven't gotten a chance to read any more of them but I'm hoping the library will have the rest.
You might enjoy Tami Hoag, if you haven't read any of her books before. I would consider them murder/mystery genre books. The last one I read of hers, Still Waters was really good. I'd recommend it...as well as all of her other books. I think I've read about 8 books of hers and liked all of them.
I love Dean Koontz. Some of his books are really out there and are more thriller/suspense/sci-fi kind of things but some are a little more of a murder/mystery kind of thing.
@tracie1758 (507)
• United States
26 Jan 09
Thanks for the response! I'm going to also look into Catherine Coulter. I just finished a Tami Hoag book. Dust to Dust, it was pretty good. I was suprised most of hers have a strong romance theme, but this one didn't. I don't like the mushy stuff in my books. Give me a thriller that keeps me awake at night!
I read a bit of dean koontz as well. I'm not a big fan of his sci/fi. give me the murder/mystery!
thanks for the response have a great day!
@samma00 (342)
• Canada
26 Jan 09
recently i read a book called wycleif and the school girls. there's a series of those, by w.j. burley. they don't go in any order. i believe its actually a tv show in britian, but they are good suspense mystery novels. There's also Blindness by Jose Saramago. About a whole city that sees a white blindness and people have to be quarentintine. And there's people dying and being raped, and there's only one person who doesn't go blind. It's very good. That's all I can think of at the moment. I'm not big into suspense. I am reading a book called The book thief by markus zusak. It's based during world war 2, in germany where hilter ruled, and there's this one little girl who steals a book from her brothers gravesite, and when she goes to live with her foster parents she steals another one at this burning bonfire thing they have for hitlers birthday, anyway, it's really good.



